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Title: Spousal Alternatives and Marital Dissolution
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Lloyd, Kim Marie South, Scott J. |
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Spousal Alternatives and Marital Dissolution Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994 Cohort(s): NLSY79 Publisher: Population Association of America Keyword(s): Census of Population; Divorce; Geocoded Data; Hispanics; Marital Disruption; Marital Dissolution; Marital Stability; Modeling, Hazard/Event History/Survival/Duration; National Survey of Families and Households (NSFH); Racial Differences; Remarriage Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. We draw on three different data sources to explore the effects of the quantity and quality of potential remarriage partners available in the local marriage market on the risk of marital dissolution. First, data from the National Survey of Families and Households are used to demonstrate that, among recently-divorced couples, a substantial percentage of husbands and wives had been romantically involved with someone prior to divorcing. Then, microlevel data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth are merged with aggregated Public Use Microdata from the U.S. census to examine directly the impact of marriage market characteristics and other contextual variables on the risk of disruption, net of conventional, individual-level predictors of divorce. Proportional hazards regression models reveal that, among non Hispanic whites, the risk of dissolution is highest where either wives or husbands encounter abundant alternatives to their current spouse. The labor forces participatio n rate of unmarried women and the rate of geographic mobility in the local marriage market also decrease marital stability. In general, the results suggest that many persons continue the marital search even while married, and that the distribution of spousal alternatives embedded in the social structure influences significantly the risk of marital dissolution. |
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Lloyd, Kim Marie and Scott J. South. "Spousal Alternatives and Marital Dissolution." Presented: Miami, FL, Population Association of America Meetings, May 1994. |